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  • Spring Valley Wind (SVW), LLC on March 2, 2009, submitted a draft Plan of Development (POD) which is currently being reviewed and refined. The BLM on Oct. 4, 2007, received from the company a Right-of-Way (ROW) application for a 150-megawatt (MW) wind generation farm to be constructed just north of Highway 6/50 in Spring Valley, about 30 miles east of Ely, Nevada. Since that time, SVW has been completing the wind and other studies for the area and preparing the POD for the proposal.

  • The BLM in September, 2008, issued Wilson Creek Power Partners (WCCP), LLC, anemometer and project area ROW in the areas of Mt. Wilson/Table Mountain, Atlanta Summit and the White Rock Range, about 30 miles northeast of Pioche, in Lincoln County, Nevada. WCCP in August 2008 submitted a conceptual POD for a 990-MW wind generation farm to be located on approximately 31,000 acres of the public lands.  The output and acreage for the POD submitted with a development ROW application will be depend upon the outcome of wind and siting studies.

  • Boulevard Associates has a project area ROW for about 67,771 acres with two anemometers north of the Spring Valley Wind project area.

  • Nevada Wind has a ROW for anemometers and a 4,250-acre project area for the Antelope Range, and ROW applications for anemometers and a project area in the South Schell Creek range.

  • Invenergy, LLC, has two project areas, 4,400 and 4,911 acres respectively, with one anemometer authorized in each area located on the north and side sides of the Boulevard Associates project area ROW in Spring Valley.

 
Last updated: 04-22-2009